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| North America:The fourteenth Democratic national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Grover Cleveland.
The eighth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate James G. Blaine. Representative John Roy Lynch is first black elected temporary chairman of the national convention. |
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January 1884
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November 1884
Samuel Douglas McEnery is re-elected governor for full four years. He will be known as the levee governor or as McLottery. |
December 1884
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Ellsworth and William Woodward come to New Orleans to teach at the Cotton Exposition. Ellsworth will establish the art program at Newcomb College and develop the art pottery that brings national acclaim to the school. He champions art groups as a means to preserve the French Quarter’s character. William meticulously records French Quarter buildings, particularly those doomed to demolition and leads a protest of destruction of the Cabildo in 1895. Both brother s teach at the Tulane School of Architecture. George Washington Cable has helped revitalize the south with his descriptive writing, but locally he finds resentment from both the Creoles and his Garden District neighbors. The Creoles resent his depiction of them in his novel The Grandissimes and in other works. In 1884 he moves to Northhampton, Mass. He resumes his literary career and is given honorary doctorates by Washington and Lee, Bowdoin and Yale Universities. Cornetist and leader Oscar Papa Celestin born. Excelsior Brass band is formed and will be active until 1931. |
New Orleans hosts the World Industrial and Cotton Exposition. President Chester A. Arthur presses a telegraph key in Washington D.C. to start the fair. The National Editorial Association is organized at the Exposition. The World’s Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition features the world’s largest building in Audubon Park. Edwin L. Wilson, the official photographer of the Exposition takes over 200 images showing New Orleans and the fair. Just prior to the exposition E.T. Adams and Albert D. Hofeline published a book of New Orleans Businesses illustrated with photographs. C. H. Adams records the funeral ceremony of Jefferson Davis in 1889. |
Upper City Park becomes Audubon Park. Oldest Elks lodge in Deep South. |
Monument to Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle by sculptor Alexander Doyle is completed. Lee faces defiantly northward. The circle originally known as Tivoli Circus was part of the neoclassical street pattern of the Lower Garden district. The sixteen and a half foot statue weighs more than 7,000 pounds. |
The Columns, located at 3811 St. Charles Ave., is built as an Italianate style building with a tower designed by Thomas Sully. The columns were added and tower removed later when Greek Revival was in vogue. Sully built many of the mansions on the avenue from Louisiana Avenue to Napoleon Avenue from 1875 to 1890. | Camp Nicholls, a Confederate soldiers home is dedicated in May of 1884. Located at 1700 Moss Street the home named in honor of Governor Francis T. Nicholls will house indigent veterans. After 1942 Camp Nicholls is used as an armory for the Louisiana National Guard. Currently it is used as a Crisis Transportation Unit and Special Operations Division of the New Orleans Police Department. | ||||||
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